Jazz Articles about Hamish Balfour

About Hamish Balfour

Album Review

Tenderlonious: You Know I Care

Read "You Know I Care" reviewed by Neil Duggan

by Neil Duggan
August 15, 2023

Ed Cawthorne, also known as Tenderlonious, is a versatile multi-instrumentalist able to combine genres and styles which to date have included Indian classical ragas with his quartet Jaubi, jazz fusion takes on the music of John Coltrane and Yusef Lateef with his bands Ruby Rushton and 22archestra, and electro funk and ambient electronica in his solo studio work. A leading light on the London jazz circuit, Tenderlonious also works as a composer, producer and record label owner. With ...

Album Review

Ed "Tenderlonious" Cawthorne: The Piccolo: Tender Plays Tubby

Read "The Piccolo: Tender Plays Tubby" reviewed by Chris May

by Chris May
April 24, 2020

Saxophonist, flautist and vibraphonist Tubby Hayes, who died at the unconscionably young age of 38 in 1973, was that rare thing among the first generation of British hard boppers—a musician who was taken seriously by the hippest American musicians and audiences. He visited New York in 1961 and 1964 for seasons at the Half Note, and Los Angeles in 1965 for a run at Shelley's Manne-Hole. A passionate player, a gifted composer and a virtuoso on his instruments, Hayes first ...